ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Michel Foucault's concept of 'subjugated knowledges' and provide a few selected examples of different kinds of subjugated knowledge within and outside of the terrorism studies field. It explores potential strategies for de-subjugating knowledge. The chapter expresses that the presents historical juncture provides a ripe moment for a critical intervention to de-subjugate peace and conflict studies in particular, and that as a type of Bourdieuian collective intellectual project, critical terrorism studies (CTS) is in a prime position to lead such an intervention. There is no need to reproduce here the main findings of the growing literature which explores the ideological consequences of the dominant terrorism discourse. Apart from the discourse and power-knowledge stabilising effects which function to maintain existing hegemonic social structures and practices, knowledge subjugation also results in a condition whereby the field exists in a highly unstable, overflowing and open-ended state in which certain knowledges are simultaneously 'known' and 'unknown'.
